3, bay area are in san mateo and contra costa counties all moving up in the states reopening tier system. Thank you for joining us this tuesday afternoon here on kron 4 news at im Sanaz Tahernia new are in contra costa and san mateo counties have moved it to the moderates here, more businesses will be allowed to reopen indoor operations with safety precautions and modifications take a look at this map of where our bay area counties stand the newest move leave solano and sonoma counties in the more severe risk tears with sonoma still in the most restricive a widespread purple tier and solano in the red or substantial risks here, San Francisco is the only bay area county and the lowest risk here which is the yellow where it can move to the orange chair once the test Positivity Rate falls between 2, 4. 9 . The San Francisco is in the yellow tear which is the least restrictive tier in terms of reopening non essential some nonessential Office Workers can start showing up back to work kron f
They say the majority of power is expected to be restored by this evening. Thats the good news. Heres a look at pg es current Public Safety power outage map and see all this purple areas, those are spots where the electricity is currently turned off. Far fewer of them than this time last night but still a lot of outages in the north bay. Now we go live to calistoga where many of those customers remain in the dark red cross for is dan kerman is there live with us dan we heard from that gentleman. Its been windy for many many years said all the sudden the past couple years people lose their power preemptively theyre not happy. Well, ill tell you something really interesting and thats the fact that when i talk to people in marine yesterday, they were a little less willing to go with the power shut off but here in calistoga where youve seen lots of fires, they are more willing role with the tide. Now pacific gas and electric has been crisscrossing napa county today tried to restoring power
With pacific gas and electric have been crisscrossing napa county repairing and inspecting power lines and poles. Before turning the power back on its getting kind of old yeah as usual residents who live west of the river in calistoga have been without power. This time since sunday afternoon. Some have been through it so many times that they bought a generator to make life a little easier. Ieeping one tv going. A light in my bedroom. Light in the kitchen. Wi fi. And the refrigerator. And its not just homes west of the river that have been without power. But weiner east to like castello di amorosa still after wine tasting continues, we had a generator. That is able to any. A gift card that whole castle not only is this winery had to deal with power shut offs but its warehouse and 10,000 cases of wine were destroyed by the glass fire at the end of last month. Still they keep pushing ahead because were so used having files for the last 4 years including the whole bay area. People are now
Balan muchas warns that the county has to get its act together unfortunate reality is that we are seeing case numbers that are higher than they should be for us to remain in red and unfortunately that puts us at risk of going back in the purple. You know the cause of it is obviously people getting together with family and friends and letting their guard down so that disease spreads and we had several weeks ago several large as ants that we believe accounted for that spike that theyre not just says the spike could be temporary at least hes hoping thats the case he points to several recent events as examples of behavior that is detrimental to the countys progression in reopening involving 300 people with no social distanced staying lee and its a wedding at a home with 40 people no social distancing no and then there was some type of the news sent invitation only event was a large number of people again no social distancing and we had dozens of cases from these events doctor much as says
Afternoon, those 30s and 40s will gradually leave us and well be back up into the 70s and 80s for daytime highs, ample sunshine, a noticeably calmer afternoon and overall a nice one to venture out. Rob. All right, thank you for the update john we appreciate it well check back in with you a little later for now were checking in on the traffic. Which is looking good by the way so heres youre live. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza, pretty easy going into San Francisco with no big problems leaving the maze across the upper deck right on through downtown, San Francisco. If you take the limits are oakland just getting word of a crash right after high street see may see a pocket of slow traffic there, but it moves well continuing to downtown here were off to 92, this is your trip across the san mateo bridge a little busy as usual. That is the norm, so you dont have to worry about crashes or stalls right now so get on out there no problems into foster city and we have one more for you this ti